Stephen Schwartz: Tonight in 1978, the first episode of Douglas Adams’s wildly original radio series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” was first broadcast on BBC 4 in the United Kingdom. (The first US broadcast was on June 7, 1981, on the @npr.org series Playhouse, where I heard it on Santa Monica station KCRW).

Tonight in 1978, the first episode of Douglas Adams’s wildly original radio series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” was first broadcast on BBC 4 in the United Kingdom. (The first US broadcast was on June 7, 1981, on the @npr.org series Playhouse, where I heard it on Santa Monica station KCRW).

That’s right, the entire enterprise began as an improbable science fiction-comedy radio play, before it was adapted into a series of books, a TV series, and, much later, a movie (sadly, Adams died suddenly and unexpectedly at 49 in 2001). You can listen to the first 12 episodes via the link below.

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy BBC Radio 4 : Douglas Adams : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy BBC Radio 4First episode aired 03-08-1978 starring Peter Jones as The Book, Simon Jones, and Geoffrey McGivern. Written by...

“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

I read the book and saw the movie (which was horrible). Guess I need to find the radio series. More than one of my reviewers say my H2liftShip saga is similar, but I don't see it. www.h2liftship.com

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You can listen to the first 12 episodes via a link in the thread.

Thanks, I'll give it a try...

The broadcast would have been on BBC Radio 4. BBC 4 is a television station, and didn't commence transmissions until much later.

Noted!

One of my cars had a license plate with "42" as the last number.

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